We got up early again and went to the El Dorado gold mines for a tour. We went on the train and Earl (Tara's hockey friend...) sang as we moved over to the panning set up. We got off and learned about how they miners worked, watched some panning and went to do it ourselves. I panned up $14 worth of gold (little flakes) and Tara panned out $4.
We stopped and took some photos climbing on the pipeline...and waited for the people to come out of the woods...
Then we went to the North Pole and visited the Santa Clause house, complete with reindeer and Santa. And ate at Pagoda, a Chinese restaurant, with super huge portions, that was featured on the TV show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on the food channel with John and Skip.
We then headed over to the classroom and started the level 3 and 4 seminar. After a few hours in the classroom we went to the rink and got to the on-ice testing. I borrowed a pair of rental skates from Joe (I played softball in high school with his sister; small world) and some odd helmet. Note: passed my level 4 skate in rentals! After the clinic we stopped for a bite to eat.
